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Silicon Valley based technologist, Kevin helps 3rd party developers create successful and immersive entertainment products using the latest Harman technologies. Building a community to support the development of innovative technologies and providing technical, marketing and moral support is core to Kevin’s mission. Kevin has experience co-founding three startups, and has held key leadership positions with leading tech companies such as Palm, HP and recently in the CTO office of Nokia.

Meera Kaul

Managing Partner

Germanium Ventures

Meera Kaul, the Managing Partner of Germanium Ventures is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of 4 multi-million dollar exits .At Germanium, she manages a portfolio of investments valued at half a billion dollars across North America, Asia, Africa and Middle East with headquarters in Menlo Park, California with offices in Hong Kong, Nairobi and Dubai. Germanium has a very unique venture financing model for provisioning its investments through flexible financing models, scalable technical human resources, marketing services, channel strategy development & execution, warehousing and logistics in 6 locations worldwide as well as access to a marquee global customer base.

Meera was voted one of the Top 50 women in telecom space; Entrepreneur of the year 2013 and 2015, apart from being the Executive of the Year over consecutive years. Meera is also the winner of the Asia and The Pacific Entrepreneurship Award 2015 under the Outstanding Category. She recently has been nominated as a Semi-Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Award. Besides being an accomplished technology geek, Meera has a degree in International Taxation and Financial Law from TJSL, and is also an Alumni of the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Shelley Lau

Managing Partner

IPC Ventures

Shelley Lau has over 15 years’ international experience in the US, EU and Asia/JP. Shelley participated in and transacted investments from US$5-$900M and exited a couple of ventures.

She is currently a Managing Partner at IPC Ventures, it invests in early stage mobile first startup including technology, platforms, media, content as well as mobile gaming. Shelley holds MBA and MS degrees from MIT.

Manoel Lemos

Partner

Redpoint eventures

Before joining the Redpoint eventure’s partnership, Manoel was the Chief Digital Officer of Abril Media, the second largest media conglomerate in Brazil. An entreprenuer, Manoel founded and developed BlogBlogs, the world’s largest indexer of blogs in Portuguese. BlogBlogs was acquired by Abril / Naspers and originated WebCo, the first Brazilian start-up focused on the development of Web 2.0 products with a strong Silicon Valley inspired culture. Manoel led WebCo as founder and CEO.

Before BlogBlogs, Manoel was the CTO for Hypercom Brasil, a leading provider of payment solutions for the credit card and banking industries. Earlier in his career Manoel worked as software engineer, solutions architect and Internet specialist for local companies, the Brazilian government and the European Community.

Manoel is also the founder and chief-maker of Fazedores.com, the first portal dedicated to the Brazilian Maker Movement community, which aims to promote the maker culture in Brazil and be the hub for Brazilian makers to exchange ideas, collaborate on and show projects.

Manoel received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UNICAMP where he also did several years of research and has an incomplete masters degree in high performance computing. He holds an ACE from the Sloan Business School at MIT and participated in executive education on Strategy for Media Companies at Harvard Business School and Venture Capital at Haas Business School in University of California Berkeley.

Nathan Millard

Founder & CEO

G3 Partners

Nathan Millard Founded G3 Partners, Asia’s first PR & Global agency for startups, to help entrepreneurs effectively communicate beyond their domestic borders. With offices in Seoul and Kuala Lumpur, G3 serves clients across Asia and supports Global startups with Asia market entry. Before G3, Nathan was Korea’s most active writer about the local startup scene in English. In that role he also led overseas acceleration programs for Asian startups to Singapore, the USA and Europe and taught entrepreneurship as a guest lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul.When Nathan is not busy getting G3’s clients get featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal or other global publications, he’s coaching them on social media and content strategy or helping them meet fundraising goals. He is a Google Campus mentor and a Partner at Accelerate Korea, Korea’s newest transnational accelerator. He believes East & West have immence opportunity for increased collaboration and is on a mission to facilitate it.

Tim Chang

Managing Director

Mayfield

Tim Chang is a proven investor and tri-lingual technology executive who has been named to the Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors. He invests in early-stage companies that leverage the drivers of mobile, social, and SaaS/adtech and is an advocate of behavioral insights, gamification, & quantified self. Some of his notable investments include ngMoco (acquired by DeNA), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm). He holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and plays guitar in two bands.

Rebecca Kaden

Partner

Maveron

Rebecca Kaden is a partner in Maveron’s San Francisco office. In 2015, Forbes named Rebecca to its annual list of top “30 under 30” in venture capital, and Craig Newmark named Rebecca one of “5 Women Investors You Need to Know.” At Maveron, Rebecca identifies consumer-focused entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Southern California, and her hometown of New York City. She also plays a leading role in the firm’s seed program, partnering with emerging consumer companies at their earliest stages. She’s a Board Observer at Aria, August, Darby Smart, Dolls Kill and General Assembly. In a prior life, Rebecca was a journalist—for the Economist in London and as special projects editor at Narrative, an online platform devoted to bringing great literature into the digital age. Now she brings her skills and passion for understanding how stories come together to help identify potential breakout consumer brands. Rebecca earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford.

Noah Lichenstein

Partner

Cowboy Ventures

Noah is a Partner at Cowboy Ventures. He has been helping build start ups in Silicon Valley for over a decade, and is passionate about turning ideas into products and businesses that customers love.

Prior to joining Cowboy, Noah was a founding member of HomeRun, a leading social commerce platform that reached over 100 million consumers at its peak (acquired by Rearden Commerce). Before HomeRun, Noah led consumer business development at the Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto (MON)), was the Co-Founder & President of Annuvia, and served as a wildland firefighter in rural Oregon.

He attended Stanford University and serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of the Bay Area.

Bubba Murarka

Partner

DFJ

Bubba Murarka is a partner at DFJ, where his current responsibilities include leading early stage investments in consumer internet and mobile technology companies. Bubba currently serves on the boards of Circle CI, Highlight, Kiwi, and Twin Prime.
Prior to joining DFJ, Bubba led product development for Facebook for Android and started the Facebook Home project. At Facebook, Bubba also led business development deals with key strategic partners including Microsoft, Netflix,Yahoo, Dentsu and Terra Networks. Previously, Bubba spent seven years in technical and product roles at Microsoft, where he acted as group program manager for Bing’s Bay Area development team, delivering components of Windows, MSN Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search and early versions of Bing Social. He started his career at Microsoft in Seattle as part of the original threedegrees team focused on social products.

Bubba holds BS and MS in computer science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he served as the sole student member of the California State University Board of Trustees, and he continues to focus philanthropic efforts on increasing access to education.

Jonathan Qiu

Managing Director

Decent Capital

Jonathan Qiu is the Managing Director of Decent Capital, one of the biggest seed stage venture funds in China (ranked No.4 in 2014). Decent was founded by Tencent co-founder Jason Zeng, and has 160 plus companies in portfolio. Before joining Decent Capital, Jonathan was a Director of Networking Infrastructure in Tencent Inc. Prior to that, Jonathan worked for 12 years in Silicon Valley, California, holding various senior management positions in technology multinationals such as Cisco and Brocade. Jonathan holds a MS from University of Southern California and a BS from Peking University, both in Computer Science.

Shuchi Rana

Co-Founder

America Innovates

Shuchi Rana has 15 years of Startup experience primarily in the Technology space, in Silicon Valley and India. She is a Co-founder of America Innovates, an initiative to accelerate innovation districts across the United States, with a focus on investment into high value job creation and social impact. As a VP of Customer Success for Trivium Corporate Solutions, she has managed due diligence for the fund raising of Startups that have collectively raised over $100M and several acquisitions. Shuchi has been instrumental in setting up international operations in India, Israel & China for US based startups. She is well versed with the entire life cycle of a startup – inception thru exit.

Hans Tung

Managing Partner

GGV Capital

Hans Tung is a managing partner at GGV Capital, where he focuses on mobile internet, cross-border ecommerce, online education, and gaming industry investments. Hans led GGV’s investment and serves on the board of Wish, a fast-growing cross border mobile commerce company, Curse, a popular gaming platform, FlightCar, the world’s first peer to peer car sharing company at airports, Totspot, a mobile marketplace for moms, GrubMarket, a marketplace for local farm goods, Xiaohongshu, an active social community and recommendation app for cross border shopping, Misfit, maker of wearable and smart home products, and Xiaomi ecosystem companies Zimi and 1More. He is also actively involved with GGV portfolio companies Flipboard, Draftking, and Yodo1. Hans’ prior work experience spans venture capital, internet startups, and tech investment banking over 18 years. He led investments in or served on the boards of startups that have since becom e category leaders, including Xiaomi (where he was involved in attracting Hugo Barra, the former Head of Android Product Management at Google), Mafengwo Travel, Vancl.com, Domob Mobile, 51fanli, Forgame (HKSE: 0484), which went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October 2013, and eHi Car Rental (NYSE: EHIC), which went public on the NYSE in November 2014. Hans joined GGV from Qiming Venture Partners where he focused on investment in China from 2007 to 2013. Previously he was with Bessemer Venture Partners, where he helped global players such as Skype expand into China. Hans was also a founding member of Taipei-based Crimson Asia Capital and HelloAsia, a pan-Asian focused consumer Internet startup based in Silicon Valley. He started his career at Merrill Lynch as an investment banker focused on the technology sector. He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. Hans has been ranked as a top VC on the Forbes Midas list the past three years (2 013, 2014, and 2015).

Edith Yeung

Partner

500 Startups

Edith Yeung is a Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund, focusing on investing in mobile apps and consumer internet startups. Prior, Edith was the VP of marketing & business development for Dolphin Browser. Dolphin Browser is a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. She also founded RightVentures – seed stage investment firm focusing on mobile and consumer internet companies. Some of her investments include Fleksy, Mighty Text, Pack, Bounce.io etc. She is also an advisor to Strikingly. Before all the startup world, she worked with companies like AT&T Wireless, Oracle, Siebel, Autodesk, Cisco, Telstra and Hungary Telecom. You can also find some of her work on CNBC, CBS , NPR, Techcrunch, Next Web, Mashable, Read Write Web, Fora, etc. She frequently speaks on mobile, and international growth. And she loves dogs. 🙂

In 2006, Ms. Zeng co-founded Jade Invest, a China focused USD fund of private equity funds. She helped the fund successfully entered into more than 10 best-performing and highest entry threshold VC/PE funds in China. Previously, Ms. Zeng founded Maple Valley Investments in 2004, a boutique financial advisory in China. At Maple Valley, she has offered a wide range of corporate advisory and private placement services to blue-chip Chinese clients. She has successfully raised several hundred millions for dozens of companies including Intime Department Store (01833.HK) etc.

Ms. Zeng was the first Executive Director of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) in 2002. She is also the Deputy Secretary-General of China Private Equity Association in Tianjin. Ms. Zeng was elected as one of 30 most influential business women in China by the China Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011.

Prizes

Top 20 Applicants

Two (2) complimentary Gold conference passes (valued at $999 USD)

One (1) complimentary demo booth (valued at $1,500) on the Expo floor

Connect with leading VCs, seasoned entrepreneurs and industry peers

Company name and product logo listed on G-Startup webpage

PR & Promotion: Through regular newsletters to thousands of industry stakeholders and investors, and social media outreach

Top 10 Finalists

All benefits from the top 20 plus:

Pitch and demo on stage in competition semi-finals

Participate in Pitch Camp training and receive 1:1 mentorship by leading venture capitalists and investors